Starting the group off w/ a non-monetary medal from Ionia Island, dating to when it was a British Protectorate. Ionia is a Greek Isle, and a source of some splendid ancient coins (although such wouldn't fit in this group).
Around the same time I won this, a day later, on 19 May 2023, Stephen Album Rare Coins had some magnificent toned Ionian pieces i failed to win, a silver 30 lepta, 1862, and silver proof lepton, also from 1862. I may still do a post on those, because the eye appeal on those were amazing, particularly the lepton proof.
GREAT BRITAIN. Ionian Islands Constitution Bronze Medal, "1817" (1820). UNCIRCULATED.
BHM-958; Eimer-1094. By Alexis Joseph Depaulis. 41mm. Obverse: Britania seated left, holding pair of tablets, statue of Neptune on a pedestal at right, perimeter legend above and legend in exergue below; Reverse: Seven allegorical females of the seven Ionian Islands dancing around a flagpole flying the British flag, legend in exergue below. Number 40, the last medal in Mudie's National Series of Medals. Britain was given protectorate status of the Ionian Islands in one of the 1815 Treaties of Paris and a constitution was ratified on 26 August 1817. An attractive medal with glossy, rich medium-brown surfaces.
Provenance: From the PHG Collection.
Won from Stack's-Bowers May 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - World Coins Part 2 - Lot 72399. Live Bidding began May 18, 2023 @ 9:00 AM PDT
Around the same time I won this, a day later, on 19 May 2023, Stephen Album Rare Coins had some magnificent toned Ionian pieces i failed to win, a silver 30 lepta, 1862, and silver proof lepton, also from 1862. I may still do a post on those, because the eye appeal on those were amazing, particularly the lepton proof.
GREAT BRITAIN. Ionian Islands Constitution Bronze Medal, "1817" (1820). UNCIRCULATED.
BHM-958; Eimer-1094. By Alexis Joseph Depaulis. 41mm. Obverse: Britania seated left, holding pair of tablets, statue of Neptune on a pedestal at right, perimeter legend above and legend in exergue below; Reverse: Seven allegorical females of the seven Ionian Islands dancing around a flagpole flying the British flag, legend in exergue below. Number 40, the last medal in Mudie's National Series of Medals. Britain was given protectorate status of the Ionian Islands in one of the 1815 Treaties of Paris and a constitution was ratified on 26 August 1817. An attractive medal with glossy, rich medium-brown surfaces.
Provenance: From the PHG Collection.
Won from Stack's-Bowers May 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - World Coins Part 2 - Lot 72399. Live Bidding began May 18, 2023 @ 9:00 AM PDT
Starting the group off w/ a non-monetary medal from Ionia Island, dating to when it was a British Protectorate. Ionia is a Greek Isle, and a source of some splendid ancient coins (although such wouldn't fit in this group).
Around the same time I won this, a day later, on 19 May 2023, Stephen Album Rare Coins had some magnificent toned Ionian pieces i failed to win, a silver 30 lepta, 1862, and silver proof lepton, also from 1862. I may still do a post on those, because the eye appeal on those were amazing, particularly the lepton proof.
GREAT BRITAIN. Ionian Islands Constitution Bronze Medal, "1817" (1820). UNCIRCULATED.
BHM-958; Eimer-1094. By Alexis Joseph Depaulis. 41mm. Obverse: Britania seated left, holding pair of tablets, statue of Neptune on a pedestal at right, perimeter legend above and legend in exergue below; Reverse: Seven allegorical females of the seven Ionian Islands dancing around a flagpole flying the British flag, legend in exergue below. Number 40, the last medal in Mudie's National Series of Medals. Britain was given protectorate status of the Ionian Islands in one of the 1815 Treaties of Paris and a constitution was ratified on 26 August 1817. An attractive medal with glossy, rich medium-brown surfaces.
Provenance: From the PHG Collection.
Won from Stack's-Bowers May 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - World Coins Part 2 - Lot 72399. Live Bidding began May 18, 2023 @ 9:00 AM PDT
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